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Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

no single event can destroy your data

Chicxulub impactor disagrees

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Right ,I guess I meant no single event where you would care about that data afterwards.

A massive solar flare could destroy all digital data on the entire planet, and send us back into the stone age. Hundreds of thousands would die. Suddenly those TPS report backups won't be as important as you thought they were.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

"But youre still coming in to work on monday, right?"